I'm making pies today, instead of studying for the GRE, which I feel very ambivalent toward right now. It's so frustrating, not wanting to study. And I usually do want to. In fact, I want to study now, just not for some stupid standardized test. I'm grateful to standardized testing for giving us our beautiful "meritocracy," but I don't want to have to take it. I want to be accepted into that -ocracy on my own unstandardized merit. And I don't remember as much math as I thought I did. Trying to think of how to calculate the area of a triangle--I'm supposed to be finished with this.
So I'm making pies. And I'm telling myself that I need to get on the ball about the grad school thing, but the thought of it makes me so tired. I've pretty much decided to go ahead and go to Simmons next year, for the library degree. It's a good program at a good school, and I've been accepted already. It doesn't matter so much that I don't want to be a librarian forever. So I'm going to get that masters and then get the PhD in Lit that I really want. I just don't want to wait! But . . . I have only a month to get everything together for applications to other schools. I feel a little lost. "I need an academic advisor to show me the way." I wish I could go back to college . . .
Posted by linnea at October 29, 2005 11:53 PMI wish I get get back in your bed...
Posted by: Natalie at October 30, 2005 2:04 AMI just decided like 2 days ago that I might like to go back to school for a master's degree next fall, but I'm not sure I can fit everything in before deadlines. Both GRE tests, essays, referrals, transcripts.. oi.. and I haven't even made up my mind whether I really want to do this, yet.. which I need to do before I spend a bajillion dollars on everything..
Posted by: mott at October 30, 2005 3:10 PMGo to school in Canada, Mott....then you don't have to take the GRE....
Posted by: funke at October 30, 2005 7:16 PMLinnea: please email me your address. I sent the Boston 5th Northers a letter and nearly cried this afternoon when I found it had come back to me in the mail. Seriously, I was very depressed.
Posted by: funke at October 31, 2005 4:51 PMLinnea,
Those books you sent were juicy. They dripped down my chin. I told my book club friends that I finally broke into the world of Diana Wynne Jones, whom they all worship and adore, and they asked which book, and I said Fire and Hemlock, and they said, do you plan on reading any more of hers? I wouldn't if that was the first of hers I'd read! and I said, well, yeah, I liked it, and they said, hey, you're cool.
And I got such a kick out of the Pratchett (whose books I had also never read) that I went to the library today and got Wee Free Men. I also checked out the other two His Dark Materials, and a little funny book by Tolkien called Mr. Bliss, and Konigsberg's The View From Saturday, as part of my life goal of reading all the Newberys whether they appeal to me or not.
Of course, I do have grad school work and a job to keep up with...sigh. It's nearly 3 a.m., which means I'll be wasting a good deal of my day off tomorrow in sleeping most of the morning. Ach.
Posted by: tuggy at November 1, 2005 2:54 AMyay! I'm glad you liked the books! The first Diana Wynne Jones I read was Cart and Cwidder, which isn't very good, and I didn't read any more of hers for years until I read Howl's Moving Castle this summer. I really want to read The Year of the Griffin/Dark Lord of Derkholm books, but have to figure out which comes first.
Posted by: linnea at November 1, 2005 11:00 AM